The duality of the Guns situation has always been that Axl is allowed to be himself, and do whatever he wants.  People will choose to defend him if they want for his fascist behavior, but whatever, to each his own.

Others in his circle are not afforded that luxury.

First of all,  if Axl worked for me, he'd have been fired a long, long time ago.

I don't have misconceptions or fantasies of him doing anything.  The misconception he has is that he is relevant both musically and professionally.   And that his fans who are now adults will put up with his current behavior.

Why would anyone tell him anything?  I wouldn't tell him anything, except you get no more money, and it's not because I want to dictate his actions.  I don't give up a fuck what he does.  I choose to spend my time (except today) paying attention to relevant artists who communicate with their fans. 

Honestly, I'm not even the slightest bit angry at him usually, he's like a random homeless man, harmless, insignificant.

I started reading this thread, and it made me slightly sick to think of all the people this guy hurts.

Btw, I believe Axl talks about being a borderline and all his indulgent therapy in Interview magazine from the early 90's.

TWAT.

Wow, where to start.

Hmmm...

As a public figure, his behavior will be dissected.  When he plays the recluse, all we are left with are the very public actions.

Do I know him? No.

Where there's smoke, there's fire, and the stench of the smoke is strong.
He exhibits very strong Axis II traits, that cannot be denied.

Hey, if your saying you don't like my interpretation, that's cool.
It is as valid as your interpretation that we shouldn't be interpretting.:)
I may not like everything you or anyone else says at one time.

All of this would be mute, and you and I wouldn't have an armchair analysis going on, and I wouldn't have time to think about this in a professional sense, if Axl would just do something right, ya know, like pay some sort of attention to the CD that he just dropped.

My "interpretation" of this is that he is going to disappear again, and when he reappears, he will blame other people for a failure that is all his to own.

I wonder what the Vegas odds are on that?

I'm not his qualified shrink...

Sorry, I don't buy the "truth lies in the middle" anymore.

Do I know what's going on in his mind?  No.  But he has in the past been shown to be extremely paranoid, overly sensitive, irrational, irresponsible about showing up on stage on-time, has trouble maintaining relationships, and has trouble accepting any side but his own in any argument. He has said and presented one thing, and then gone ahead and ddone another.  Hell, even during the heyday of the Illusions, guy was uncomfortable in his own skin, and started doing his best 70's Rock God impersonation.

One of the most blantantly cognitively dissonant Axl moments is/was him blatantly ripping off stage poses from Freddy Mercury while wearing a "Kill Your Idol" Bukowski shirt.

That's why he has had all these different therapists, from crystal crap in Sedona to all the other stuff dumb shit we saw in the videos from Use Your Illusion.  He's uncomfortable being himself, because believe it or not, he probably hates being a whiny little bitch too.  The second anyone has challenged either personally or professionally, they are gone.

For christ sakes, the rebirth bullshit of the "Don't Cry" video is straight out of the now debunked bullshit "attachment disorder rebirthing" craze of the early nineties.

Axl should deal with the shit that is fucking up each and every singular aspect of his life or Fuck off himself.

It's old, and he's too old to be behaving like this.

Past behavior predicts future behavior and his track record for the last 15 plus years has sucked.

You know the part in Fast Times at Ridgemont high when Mark Ratner tells Damone something to the effect of "People always bag on you, and say Damone's a creep, he's this, he's that, and I say, "No, no you just don't know Damone. Well, I'm starting to think that they knew you better than I did, and they were right."

That's where I'm at with this.

This isn't just, "He's Axl he does what he wants, he plays by his own rules, he's uncompromising".

This is he's a bitch, and people don't like it.